Water put out a cable fire. It flooded the shops one floor below and took the CCTV system down for three months.
In 2016 the cable runs in the data nodes burned — CCTV servers, the communications and control systems. The automatic water suppression worked. Then the water reached the floor below, flooded the shops, and the building-wide CCTV was out for nearly three months. The damage from the suppression exceeded the damage from the fire. Management turned to SAPFIR: powder suppresses electrical equipment without damaging it, and once vacuumed up, the server room carries on.
After a bad experience with gas suppression in the engine shop, they needed something that harms neither electronics nor people.
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After a robotic line fire ran into millions, the Korean head office sent representatives to Slovakia.
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The standards called for 12 kg of powder. The head of the works brigade bet that 4 kg would not do it. It did.
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